Marie B.

“Moss doesn't race trees skyward hunting
for sunlight.
It thrives just the same.
When your mind hisses like a kettle,
look to your elders, to the green lessons
of soft, simplet quiet beneath the sun.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“Feeling deeply is dangerous.
Doing anything else is tragic.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“We need the poetic lens because
quantifying
the physical properties of iron isn't quite
the same
as weighing the significance of how the
iron in our blood
connects us to the planet beneath our feet,
to the heat of ancient stars.”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy

“You are the mountain, but awake.
You are the rain, but breathing.
You are the forest, but unanchored.
You are the soil, but with choice.
You are the sunlight, but dreaming.
Soon, you will be all these things again.
Mountain. Rain. Forest. Sunlight.
So, what will you do until then?”
― Jarod K. Anderson, The Haunted Forest Trilogy